The artists of Göbekli Tepe depicted swarms of what Schmidt calls "scary, nasty" creatures: spiders, scorpions, snakes, triple-fanged monsters, and, most common of all, carrion birds. The single largest carving shows a vulture poised over a headless human.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Gobekli Tepe
An ancient temple complex in Turkey. I liked this in particular:
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